Thursday, August 9, 2012

giveaway: creep and freak

I loved both Creep and Freak by Jennifer Hillier. Thanks to Simon & Schuster, you could be the lucky winner who gets to enjoy them both.

Publishers Weekly had the following to say about the books:
"In Hillier's agreeably frightening debut, a psychological thriller,
beautiful Sheila Tao, a highly regarded professor of social psychology
at Seattle's Puget Sound University, has been having an affair with her
volatile teaching assistant, Ethan Wolfe. Sheila, who's spent three
years in Sex Addicts Anonymous, a fact known only to her trusted
therapist, wishes to end the affair since she's about to marry Morris
Gardener, a successful Texas financier who's deeply jealous. Ethan,
however, has his own plans for Sheila and uses his considerable talents,
which include raising the art of disguise to new levels, to carry them
out. When Sheila suddenly disappears, Morris, rebuffed by the skeptical
police, hires an equally skeptical PI to hunt her down. While unlikely
coincidences abound (a stolen cuff link conveniently turns up) and the
characters distinctly lack any redeeming spark, the book holds its
secrets well and packs a concluding wallop."

"Readers are advised to read Hillier’s frightening 2011 debut, Creep,
before this so-so sequel, which features many of the same characters. In
the previous book, Abby Maddox, the girlfriend of serial killer Ethan
Wolfe, went to prison for nearly cutting the throat of PI Jerry Isaac, a
former Seattle policeman. In the year since that assault, the
authorities have been trying to link Maddox to Wolfe’s murders. With
both the mental and physical scars still all too fresh, Isaac is
horrified to learn of a new horror from his former Seattle PD
colleagues. After strangling a young woman with a zip tie, someone
carved “Free Abby Maddox” into her torso. The search for the killer
inevitably connects to the previous crimes. Efforts at humor (“There was
one simple reason Jerry didn’t like cemeteries. They were full of dead
people”) do little to enhance a familiar serial killer story line."

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or have posted a link to the giveaway on your site. The deadline to
enter is 11:59pm Pacific on August 25. Winner will be selected at
random. Since this is from Simon & Schuster the winner must have a US mailing
address; no PO Boxes.